Attorney General Tom Clark told the National Conference for the Prevention and Control of Juvenile Delinquency, which opened a three day conference here yesterday, that the Department of Justice is constantly waging war against ” some individuals and some groups” who would “turn the hand of one man against another because of difference in race, color, or creed.”
The Department, Clark said, has the responsibility of protecting the civil liberties of all Americans. “I regard the way in which we discharge this responsibility as having a direct bearing upon the future of our children,” he declared. “They must not, particularly during their impressionable years, come under the influence of hate, prejudice and bigotry.”
Henry Mensky, national president of B’nai B’rith, who is chairman of the executive committee of the conference, also spoke. Other Jewish leaders who are attending the conference, are Frank L. Weil, president of the National Jewish Welfare Board, and Mrs. David M. Levy, chairman of the Women’s Division of the United Jewish Appeal, who is attending in her capacity as a member of the Attorney General’s advisory panel on juvenile delinquency.
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